(urth) AEG voices

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 19:51:54 PST 2008


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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Keeley  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:17 AM, James Wynn  wrote:
>
>>
>> If Wolfe had made a few very slight modifications to the book, he would have
>> had a nice juvenalia series here.
>>
>> J
>
> As has been stated elsewhere, Gideon is (or pretends to be) the sort
> of pulp hero that kids of all ages love - he's dashing, he's
> mysterious, he has a cool car. He's like Batman or the Shadow. It's
> odd how nostalgic a book ostensibly set in the future is.
>
> Are there any interviews where Wolfe talks much about his childhood
> reading? You can infer a lot from his books (Oz, the pulps, etc.), but
> I'd love to see some sort of list.
>
> -Matt

In some of the interviews in _Shadows_, he talks about how as a kid he
would go to the pharmacy, grab one of the pulp sci-fi, mystery etc.
magazines, and hiding, would read as much as he could. I doubt he kept
any real list.

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gwern
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